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Daniel Johnston is a Indie rock and Rock act. Their sound grew out of Jad Fair, Bob Mould, Slim Whitman, You'll Never Get to Heaven and Grupo Fantasma. Those roots explain a lot about how Daniel Johnston arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as R. Stevie Moore, Mount Eerie, The Moldy Peaches, The Mountain Goats and Michael Cera, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Matthew Good, Beirut, Jeff Tweedy, Beabadoobe and Yo La Tengo, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 62 connections around Daniel Johnston, reaching back through Jad Fair and forward to Matthew Good. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Daniel Johnston connections
Daniel Johnston grew out of Jad Fair, Bob Mould, Slim Whitman and You'll Never Get to Heaven, shares an orbit with R. Stevie Moore, Mount Eerie, The Moldy Peaches and The Mountain Goats, went on to shape Matthew Good, Beirut, Jeff Tweedy and Beabadoobe. 62 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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